Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Errol
28 +1
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Warren
28 -23
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Clifford
30 -4
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Daniel
31 new
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Clive
32 -10
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Gerald
32 -13
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Herbert
32 -7
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Owen
32 -30
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Victor
32 new
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Allen
33 new
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Gavin
33 +5
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Selwyn
33 new
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Christopher
35 +1
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Hugh
36 -7
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Roy
36 -32
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Lawrence
37 -11
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Maxwell
37 +2
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Sydney
37 new
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Alfred
38 -16
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Bernard
40 -21
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Wiremu
40 +4
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Denis
42 -1
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Frank
42 0
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Lindsay
42 +22
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Stuart
42 -6
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Kelvin
43 new
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Rodney
44 +15
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Barrie
45 -12
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Philip
47 +2
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Jack
48 -12
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Ernest
50 +2
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Harold
50 +30
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Reginald
50 +8
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Leonard
51 -4
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Albert
56 -15
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Andrew
56 +21
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Geoffrey
56 +8
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Garry
59 +23
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Stanley
59 +1
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Mervyn
62 +7
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Rex
62 -18
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Henry
63 +9
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Walter
63 -2
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Dennis
66 +24
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Ross
67 0
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Bryan
70 +15
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Norman
70 -12
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Joseph
71 0
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Patrick
71 -15
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Frederick
73 -4
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Ivan
73 +14
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Robin
73 -3
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Francis
74 0
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Desmond
75 -3
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Roger
78 +3
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Alexander
79 +11
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Malcolm
82 +9
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Russell
87 +5
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Terence
87 -1
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Eric
90 +13
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Maurice
95 -7
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Noel
95 -11
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Neil
99 -3
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Neville
107 -2
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Kevin
108 -4
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Paul
108 +16
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Keith
110 -6
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Arthur
112 -7
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Murray
117 0
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Douglas
119 +4
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Leslie
119 -2
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Charles
121 +8
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Anthony
124 +9
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Gordon
127 0
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Edward
135 -3
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Allan
137 +1
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Gary
137 +13
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Trevor
145 +1
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Bruce
165 -2
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Alan
167 -3
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Thomas
167 +2
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George
179 -4
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Kenneth
189 -2
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Richard
190 +1
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Graeme
192 +4
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Michael
215 +4
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Raymond
223 -1
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Colin
224 -1
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Graham
224 0
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Barry
275 +3
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Ian
300 0
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Ronald
303 0
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Donald
312 0
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James
368 0
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Brian
481 -1
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Peter
485 +1
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David
514 0
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Robert
536 -1
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William
540 +1
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John
960 0
Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Aileen
26 +1
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Valmai
26 new
94.
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Adrienne
27 new
94.
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Edith
27 -13
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Hazel
27 -16
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Jillian
27 new
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Raewyn
27 new
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Claire
28 new
91.
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Gillian
28 -16
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Jessie
28 -7
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Janette
30 new
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Olive
30 -10
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Julia
31 +10
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Julie
31 new
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Noelene
31 +1
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Jacqueline
32 -10
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Merle
33 -9
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Eleanor
34 -8
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Florence
34 -23
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Susan
34 new
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Marilyn
35 +20
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Ellen
36 0
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Alice
39 -10
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Robin
39 +15
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Beryl
40 -7
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Kay
40 new
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Lynette
40 +18
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Faye
41 new
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Sylvia
41 -10
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Thelma
43 -2
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Marlene
44 -11
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Rosalie
44 new
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Norma
46 -6
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Mavis
47 +2
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Gloria
48 -3
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Phyllis
48 -3
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Nola
50 -10
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Ruth
51 -15
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Wendy
51 +27
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Lorna
53 +8
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Evelyn
56 -13
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Jill
56 -1
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Catherine
57 0
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Marjorie
57 -5
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Carol
58 +32
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Lesley
59 +4
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Rosemary
59 -5
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Audrey
60 -9
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Diane
60 +18
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Frances
60 -11
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Irene
64 0
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Daphne
65 +8
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Diana
65 +28
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Doreen
65 -17
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Josephine
65 +10
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Jocelyn
66 -1
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Annette
69 +8
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Nancy
71 -10
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Pauline
74 -6
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Eileen
76 -1
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Joyce
76 -3
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Beverly
80 +6
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Fay
80 +13
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Joy
80 +8
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Marion
84 -1
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Ngaire
85 -9
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Ann
89 +7
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Betty
90 -9
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Alison
94 +16
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Jeanette
98 +3
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Noeline
98 +8
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Yvonne
101 +2
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Lois
108 +2
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Anne
111 -1
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Lorraine
111 +1
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Jean
113 +2
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Dawn
121 +7
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Elaine
127 0
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Heather
130 -5
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Janet
134 0
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Kathleen
145 0
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June
156 0
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Jennifer
158 +4
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Marie
165 -2
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Janice
166 +2
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Colleen
172 -1
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Helen
178 +2
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Maureen
183 0
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Dorothy
191 +1
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Joan
191 -1
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Pamela
200 +1
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Elizabeth
208 -2
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Valerie
241 +1
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Shirley
294 -5
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Mary
295 -2
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Beverley
302 0
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Judith
338 +4
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Barbara
340 +3
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Patricia
438 +1
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Margaret
724 0